/**
 * ***************************************************************************** Copyright (c) 2004,
 * 2008 IBM Corporation and others. All rights reserved. This program and the accompanying materials
 * are made available under the terms of the Eclipse Public License v1.0 which accompanies this
 * distribution, and is available at http://www.eclipse.org/legal/epl-v10.html
 *
 * <p>Contributors: IBM Corporation - initial API and implementation
 * *****************************************************************************
 */
package org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.participants;

/**
 * A participant to participate in refactorings that copy elements to a shared clipboard. A copy
 * participant can't assume that its associated refactoring processor is a copy processor. A copy
 * operation might be a side effect of another refactoring operation.
 *
 * <p>Copy participants are registered via the extension point <code>
 * org.eclipse.ltk.core.refactoring.copyParticipants</code>. Extensions to this extension point must
 * therefore extend this abstract class.
 *
 * @since 3.1
 */
public abstract class CopyParticipant extends RefactoringParticipant {

  private CopyArguments fArguments;

  /** {@inheritDoc} */
  protected final void initialize(RefactoringArguments arguments) {
    fArguments = (CopyArguments) arguments;
  }

  /**
   * Returns the copy arguments.
   *
   * @return the copy arguments
   */
  public CopyArguments getArguments() {
    return fArguments;
  }
}
